On this edition of Century: The Math of Fentanyl. Host Doug McVay is
joined in conversation by Morgan Godvin, a researcher, writer, harm
reduction advocate, and co-author an article entitled \"Estimating the
daily milligrams of morphine equivalent of illicit fentanyl use in Los
Angeles: Clinical and epidemiological implications,\" which was
published in the August 2026 edition of the journal Drug and Alcohol
Dependence. They spoke at the eighty-eighth annual meeting of the
College on Problems of Drug Dependence, which took place June 13
through 17 in Portland, Oregon. Plus, the Joint United Nations
Programme against HIV/AIDS has released a new report which shows that
a combination of factors is threatening to reverse years of gains in
the AIDS response. Angeli Achrekar, Assistant Secretary-General of
UNAIDS, discussed the report at a news conference June 12.